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I realized this morning why I’m put off by super hero movies. They are fun, and I’ve always loved comic books, but the super hero movies of the last decade specifically, (I mean, beside being military propaganda) totally omit the potential future of any sort of utopia. They cannot envision their own undoing.
The stories are predicated on the super heros always needing something to be super against, despite having fantastical abilities to help usher in some sort of uto … ⌘ Read more
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** Data Types and Variables in C **
I’ve been writing a heap of Lua lately — this has lead to my becoming interested, again, in C. Here are some ancient notes I dug up on the most basics of data types and variables in C.
All of a computer’s memory is comprised of bits. A sequence of 8 bits forms a byte. A group of bytes (typically 4 or 8) form a word. Each word is associated with a memory address. The address increases by 1 with each byte of memory.
In C, a byte is an object that is as big as t … ⌘ Read more
In reply to: MEMEX - The Small Website Discoverability Crisis [2021-09-08]
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In reply to: Sable: Kotaku Review, My Top Game of 2021
Sable’s world is not a broken machine, it’s doing fine. You’re not on some grand quest to save it, or return the planet to its former glory. You’re just a girl growing up in this place, and growing up means choosing a new mask.
Closing,
Sable imagines identity and growth as playful, joyous, and nearly impossible to fail. It promises you that chang … ⌘ Read more
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** How to install Uxn on macOS **
Uxn is an esoteric stack-machine with 32 bit instructions. It exists someplace at the intersection of a GameBoy, 6502 ASM, an Apple II, Forth, RetroForth, the z80, a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, and“what if Nausicaä from Studio Ghibli’s Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind used a computer?” It is tiny, unlike most anything else around these days, and, once you wrap your head around it, pretty fun.
I won’t go into how to develop for it … ⌘ Read more
In reply to: Kids who grew up with search engines could change STEM education forever - The Verge
This, for me, points to the arbitrariness of the“desktop” as a prime metaphor in computer user interfaces.
It made sense at the birth of contemporary computing — business suits and what not — but maybe there’s a new paradigm worth explori … ⌘ Read more
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Solarpunk sits at the intersection of possible positive futures and likely negative ones. It is a recognition of humanity’s wide-ranging damage upon the natural world and inevitably, upon itself. Solarpunk is also a reaction to the cynical and dystopian imaginaries that have come … ⌘ Read more
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In reply to: 1980s computer controls GRPS heat and AC
A Kentwood High School student programmed it when it was installed in the 1980s. Whenever the district has a problem with it, they go back to the original programmer who still lives in the area. ⌘ Read more
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In reply to: Wildermyth tells incredible stories that hit surprisingly hard
These stories mean that playing Wildermyth is not just about doing tactical battles from one end of a scripted narrative to another. It means tracking a small crew of changing people through their careers as adventurers. Sometimes their personali … ⌘ Read more
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A small dynamically typed programming language with first-class comments, where every value is explained by a comment. ⌘ Read more
A screenshot of a very tiny c program written on System7
I’ve got to use macOS by nature of my work. Lately I’m increasingly down on this. Here I will not re-hash anything about the current state of Apple’s hardware and software ecosystem. I don’t care.
Wanting to take a trip down nostolgia lane, however (to when I was 2 years old) I thought I’d install Mac OS System 7. What follows is a quick guide for doing the sa … ⌘ Read more
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